What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
AGNES REPPLIEROur belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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